Always Call Court First; Snow Cancels Cases
Just as travelers know to call the airport when there is inclement weather, injured workers, their families and witnesses know to call the courts when snow, ice and flooding can make travel dangerous.
Sometimes the best laid plans of mice and men…* go awry. This week’s case that was supposed to be tried in Fairfax was postponed due to the snow and inclement weather. While the ABRAMS LANDAU office was open Monday and we were well prepared to go forward with this trip and fall case, the Judge’s assistant called the Law Shop to advise that we would have to come back in January.
Luckily, our clients who were to come and watch with their friends, witnesses and families got the word early in the day, so no one made the trip in vain. However, the client
who sustained injuries to her back, neck, legs and chest now has to wait an additional month for her “day in court.” The delay only works to the benefit of the insurance company that gets to keep the money for an additional month. While it may not seem like a lot of money, if the insurer can delay justice by a month in hundreds, or even thousands of cases, then it reaps additional profits.
Just as the farmer’s plow upturns the mouse’s nest in the Robert Burns’ poem, “To a mouse,” the team at ABRAMS LANDAU often see how an accident and the injuries that flow from it overturn the innocent victim’s plans, health and finances. If you or someone you know or care for has been injured as the result of an on the job accident and there are questions about what laws apply, or you simply want the best chance to see a Fairfax County lawyer actually try an injury or disability case, e-mail or call us at ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd. (703-796-9555) at once.
*From Robert Burns’ poem “To a Mouse,” 1786.